This slide is about the human-computer of India Mrs. Shakuntala Devi.

1. SHAKUNTALA
DEVI
“Human computer”

2. WHY I CHOOSE
MS.SHAKUNTALA DEVI
For todays presentation I choose Ms,. Shakuntala devi.
earlier I did not knew about her. But when a movie released
based on her life and about her talent , I am totally
impressed with it. It leave a huge impression in my mind. And
ofcourse I had a lot of curiosity about her talent. For that I
eventually started reading interviews and article about her
talent, like how she is so fast.
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3. BIRTH AND FAMILY
BACKGROUND
● MS. Shakuntala devi was born on
4th November , 1939 in Bangalore ,
India.
● Her father refused to become a
priest and instead , wanted to
entertain others as tight-rope
walker.
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4. CHILD PRODIGY
● News of her ability to solve difficult mathematical problems
soon problems soon spread like wildfire.
● By the age of 6 , she had her first major show at the
university of Mysore where she displayed her mathematical
prowess by finding out complex square root and cube roots
within a few seconds .
● After a few more similar performances , she found success
at Annamalal University at the age of 8, when she was
finally acknowledged as a child prodigy.
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5. PERSONAL LIFE
● In 1944, she moved to london with
father. After returning India in
1960 s , she got married to paritosh
banerji , an officer of the Indian
Administrative Service from
Kolkata.
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6. Without mathematics, there’s
nothing you can do. Everything
around you is mathematics.
Everything around you is
numbers.
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7. ACHIEVEMENT
● In 1977 , at Sothern Methodist
University ,she answered the 23rd
root of a 201-digit number in 50
seconds.
● On June 18, 1980 , she
demonstrated the multiplication of
two number in 28 seconds.
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8. AWARDS
● MS.SHAKUNTALA DEVI won the ' Distinguished
Woman of the Year Award ' in 1969 , from the
University of Philippines along with a gold medal .
● In 1988 , she was honored with the ' Ramanujan
Mathematical Genius Award ' in Washington D.C. ,
conferred to her by the - then Indian Ambassador
to US .
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9. AWARDS
● Her name was listed in the ' 1995 Guinness Book of
World Records edition for her outstanding
mathematical feat where she beat the world's
fastest computer at multiplying two thirteen digit
numbers .
● A month before her death , she was honored with
the Lifetime Achievement Award in Mumbai , in 2013.
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10. TAKEAWAYS FROM THE
BIOGRAPHY
● Brilliance comes when you respect it:
● I admired the moments , where she breaks the world
record, and got dubbed as a human-computer.
● She respected her brilliance and always kept on
practicing it. Even after she achieved a lot of
dreams, her passion for the work never changed.
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11. “
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Why do children dread
mathematics? Because of the
wrong approach. Because it
is looked at as a subject.
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THANK
YOU!

13. NAME - AYUSHI SACHAN
ROLL NO -111061
DIVISION -11
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